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Pawan Kalyan not to campaign for PR

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The morale of Praja Rajyam’s official candidates for the forthcoming elections to the GHMC suffered a setback as film star and Yuva Rajyam president Pawan Kalyan has reportedly expressed his inability to campaign for them.

The candidates were banking heavily on his campaign as he would attract not only his fans but also the youth and that would boost their chances. They were, however, left high and dry as the film star conveyed that he would not be able to spare time from his shooting schedules for the campaign.

They were also concerned over the delay in finalisation of PR president Chiranjeevi’s campaign schedule. Party leaders, however, maintained that the schedule was being chalked out and Mr. Chiranjeevi was likely to start touring the city from November 11.

He was scheduled to cover all the 55 divisions in which his party candidates are in the fray. Though the party had announced intentions to entrust the responsibilities to senior leaders and MLAs, the plan was reportedly dropped as several of them returned to their constituencies on the pretext of “pressing tasks”.

Meanwhile, Mr. Chiranjeevi who returned from a trip to Chennai, started giving away ‘B’ forms to 55 official nominees. He was closeted with senior leaders for the better part of the day discussing about the rebel trouble in the party and ways to convince them to withdraw their papers and work for the success of the official nominees.

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